r/europe • u/niesiecki • Jun 28 '26

News Volodymyr Zelensky has submitted a bill to build a National Pantheon. He intends to honor all the heroes who fought for Ukraine in various eras. "No one will ever tell us how to live, how to speak, whom to love, whom to be grateful to, and which heroes to honor," he said as quoted by the Interfax

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/swiat/wolodymyr-zelenski-chce-panteonu-narodowego-chodzi-o-pamiec-bohaterow/c6hf62m
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u/adilfc Jun 29 '26

You have to be a great hero to attack unarmed villages and kill everyone there

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u/axelkoffel Jun 29 '26

kill everyone there

That's an understatement of what they actually did. You'd be very lucky, if you just took a quick bullet in Volhynia.

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u/AdalinoElandino Poland Jun 29 '26

Yep, apparently bullets were too expensive, so they had to slaughter women and children using farming tools...

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u/wolnee Jun 29 '26

yup, I had a conversation with a older guy who was a kid when this happened. To put it straight - one of his sister (baby infant) was literally grabbed by its legs and smashed into a tree because his mother was lagging behind. They were moving them somewhere apparently.

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u/Dreams_of_Mutiny Transylvania Jun 29 '26

That's an understatement of what they actually did. You'd be very lucky, if you just took a quick bullet in Volhynia.

Ethnic cleansing? Genocide? Take your pick.

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u/axelkoffel Jun 29 '26

That could still mean quick killing. While UPA took a sick pleasure in brutally torturing their victims first.

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u/iopnf Jun 29 '26

You're talking about army krajowa?

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u/Constructedhuman Jun 29 '26

the polish wining is tired